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Someone please tell me about Fairbanks in March, my wife is wanting to see the northern lights and am looking for suggestions as to what else there might be to do, also what about temperature and weather that time of year…
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Temps shouldn't be too hot by then, but I'd bring shorts just in case.
ETA: It's a dry heat, regardless, so shouldn't be a big deal.
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Temps shouldn't be too hot by then, but I'd bring shorts just in case.
ETA: It's a dry heat, regardless, so shouldn't be a big deal. +1
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There are hotsprings for the shorts. We have many gunshops. That should be your focus. Probably go up and rent a cabin in Wiseman and see the Brooks Range. Good place for aurora up there.
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The Japanese like to procreate under the aurora. There will be a lot of Japanese at Chena hot springs resort. This should give you an idea: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/fairbanks/climate
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Last March it was -25 several times. I don't recall it ever getting above zero. Maybe it did at the very end of March but it was still very much winter all month long.
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For sure Tin. There is a wide range of temperatures that make the “average”.
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There is a very nice museum at the University.
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Do they still do the Ice Carving World Championships around that timeframe? It has been a few years, since I've been to Fairbanks, but seeing all the ice carvings was awfully neat.
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Do they still do the Ice Carving World Championships around that timeframe? It has been a few years, since I've been to Fairbanks, but seeing all the ice carvings was awfully neat. I think that’s done in conjunction with the NA sprint sled dog championship midMarch or so.
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Oops. Earlier than I remember.
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I make the run into fairbanks once every two months. Costco and coldspot is the star attraction.
Occasional visits bs'n with kaboku68 about rifles. He gets kinda rowdy though. I think he might be a hells angel or some sht.
Here are some observations:
Drivers tailgating at 60 mph on glare ice like theyre back in boston or some sht. They even have occasional multi-car pile ups.
Pick up trucks that look like theyve never seen a fkn day of work.
Modern neighborhoods that look like they came staright out of a suburb in chicago
Dudes sporting carharts and kuiu that look fresh off the store rack.
Suvs and Tacomas decked out in "overland" bllsht in a place with no fkn roads or truck trails.
UAF campus looks like a fairytale disneyland where millions of dollars are wasted in the middle of nowhere, full of 75% too many worthless academics. Only gov. dunleavy tried to cut that fkn place down to a one room school house, like it should be.
Anyhoo.......I appreciate Fairbanks.....for about 90 minutes every two months.
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I make the run into fairbanks once every two months. Costco and coldspot is the star attraction.
Occasional visits bs'n with kaboku68 about rifles. He gets kinda rowdy though. I think he might be a hells angel or some sht.
Here are some observations:
Drivers tailgating at 60 mph on glare ice like theyre back in boston or some sht. They even have occasional multi-car pile ups.
Pick up trucks that look like theyve never seen a fkn day of work.
Modern neighborhoods that look like they came staright out of a suburb in chicago
Dudes sporting carharts and kuiu that look fresh off the store rack.
Suvs and Tacomas decked out in "overland" bllsht in a place with no fkn roads or truck trails.
UAF campus looks like a fairytale disneyland where millions of dollars are wasted in the middle of nowhere, full of 75% too many worthless academics. Only gov. dunleavy tried to cut that fkn place down to a one room school house, like it should be.
Anyhoo.......I appreciate Fairbanks.....for about 90 minutes every two months.
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Michael,
You forgot to tell em about the souvenir shop at Riverboat Discovery where they have this chill room where you pay $5 to go inside and experience -40F.
I know you don't want anyone to know you've been seen in there.
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I assumed that's what "coldspot" was.
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Dang vern, how could you blow my cover, about my tourism tendencies?
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Fairbanks is the only place where all three strip clubs burned down and the strippers(bout 1/2 are in stages of pregnancy) moved to the coffee huts. There is also an equal number of churches, box motels, dive bars, gunshops(if you know where to find them), pot shops(MJ kind) and yuppie coffee cafes.
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Fairbanks is the only place where all three strip clubs burned down and the strippers(bout 1/2 are in stages of pregnancy) moved to the coffee huts. There is also an equal number of churches, box motels, dive bars, gunshops(if you know where to find them), pot shops(MJ kind) and yuppie coffee cafes. Kaboku, Who made all those f.a.s. (fetal alcohol syndrome) babies?? Ft. Wainright dudes? I had no idea fairbanks was that patriotic.
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Fairbanks is the only place where all three strip clubs burned down and the strippers(bout 1/2 are in stages of pregnancy) moved to the coffee huts. Is that bad? I like coffee. And strippers.
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One side of town and its suburbs(NP and Salcha) is patriotic, the other side UAF, Chena Ridge and Ester is just slutty.
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